Sunday, December 14, 2014

Blog Tour: His Beautiful Samurai by Sedonia Guillone

Sedonia is a guest on the blog today touring for His Beautiful Samurai. I remember reading and enjoying the first edition several years ago. Stories set in Japan have always drawn me. Sprinkle in some mystery, some paranormal abilities, and romantic suspense--and I'm there. While posting the excerpt I got the itch to read this again. Now to figure out where I saved the book!Book Title: His Beautiful Samurai

John Holmes comes to Tokyo to help stop a killer. Through the use of his psychic abilities, he can help find out things that no one else sees. Toshi is a policeman who reluctantly accepts John's help, but from their first touch, John knows he wants more than that. He wants all Toshi can give him, and the heat between them surprises, and delights him.

The modern killer, a historical murder of two samurai, and Toshi's need to honor other commitments combine to make the blooming love between John and Toshi difficult. And dangerous. The more deeply they delve into the past, the more unsure the future looks. Could the heat between them be the only thing that can solve the mystery, despite all of the difficulties that stand in their way? Can they find a way to keep what is most precious to them? Haunting and powerful, His Beautiful Samurai is a murder mystery, a romance, and a study in the supernatural. Get your hands on it today!

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Excerpt:

Boston,
Massachusetts

“In
other world news tonight, in Tokyo, Japan, a serial killer has been
terrorizing the eastern portion of the city for the last six months.”

John
reached out to switch off the set, but something held him back.

“The
Ronin Killer, has been dubbed so by Tokyo Metropolitan Police because
of the use of a samurai sword to spear his victims.”

John
sat at full attention, uncertain whether it was the military man in
him, or the empathic psychic. Old habits didn’t just die hard, they
went kicking and screaming. He stared at the screen. Police were
loading sheet-covered corpses, apparently two bodies together, into
the medical van outside of what appeared to be a fancy hotel. The top
of the sheet protruded upward, attesting to the sword. It was obvious
the killer had skewered his victims together. Christ…

“The
Ronin Killer, so named after the masterless samurai warriors of
Japan,” the anchorwoman went on, “refers to the manner in which
the killer chooses his victims, seemingly at random, and then murders
them with a samurai weapon. Police have been frustrated in the
efforts to capture the Ronin Killer before his next strike. Their
only clue is the manner in which two victims are killed at once,
either in an embrace or during sexual intercourse.”

“Damn,”
John murmured, a sick feeling rising in his gut. He continued to
watch the footage.

“Police
Inspectors Natsuka Yamamoto and Toshiro Genjin of the Criminal
Investigation Bureau have been on the case since the first victims
appeared nearly six months ago. They refused to comment on the string
of murders.”

The
cameras zoomed in on the two men. They were leaving the building. A
middle-aged, shorter man walked in front of the other detective,
seeming to shield him, but the cameras managed to catch glimpses of
the second detective. A few seconds sufficed for John to see that the
younger man was slim and handsome. John’s heart sped up slightly.
The detective’s ebony hair framed an angular face in sexy layers
that curled over his collar.

John
watched the screen, his gaze glued on the taller figure of the young
detective until he was no longer visible. The segment ended and John
switched off the set. He shook his head. There was a time when he
would have immediately booked a flight to Tokyo and turned up at the
police station, offering his services to catch the killer. Hell, that
Japanese detective was almost good-looking enough to pull him from
his rest cure. However, his nerves were still shot from the series of
cases he’d worked on with police over the last few years. Four
months hadn’t proved to be enough of a vacation. His hands had only
stopped shaking in the last week.

He
pushed the image of that guy from his mind, fighting back the nagging
spirals of heat whispering about in his long-neglected groin area.
John Holmes filled his days with walks in the park, counseling at the
VA, and whatever leisure and athletic activities would keep him fit
between reading trashy detective novels and staring into space. No
antique stores for him, nor any other place where the lives of the
dead could crash in on him. No touching other people so he could
experience all their grief and anguish and learn their deepest
secrets. He didn’t even take his reading material from the library
or get it at used bookstores because he’d sense the lives of the
people who’d touched the book before him. He was resting until his
own soul told him he was ready again.

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Author Bio:

Multi-published,
award-nominated author, Sedonia Guillone is the owner-operator of Ai
Press, publisher of erotic romances in all genres. Please come and
visit! www.ai-press.net

She lives on the water
in Florida with a Renaissance man who paints, writes poetry and tells
her she's the sweetest nymph he's ever met. When she's not writing
erotic romance, she loves watching spaghetti westerns, Jet Li and
samurai flicks, cuddling, and eating chocolate. She writes both
man/man and man/woman erotic romances and hopes you'll find something
you like!

About Me

Lexi has always been an avid reader and at a young age started reading (secretly) her mother’s romances (the ones she was told not to touch). She was the only teenager she knew of who would be grounded from reading. Later, with a pencil and a note book, she wrote her own stories and shared them with friends because she loved to see their reactions. A Texas transplant, Lexi now kicks her boots up in the Midwest with her Yankee husband and her 80 lbs. puppies named after vacuum cleaners.
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